Trainer Matz back with Derby contender Union Rags

Fortunately for the racing world, this could be another spring with the intelligence and humility of trainer Michael Matz. If the name Michael Matz is familiar, it’s because he became a cause celebre in 2006 when daily updates were given on Barbaro, that spring’s Kentucky Derby winner that suffered a shattered leg in the Preakness and went through months and months of rehabilitation before succumbing to laminitis.

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